Anything V

[MightyLady77]

Anything IV has reached 100 posts. Time to start the next edition of the Anything topic. If you can't find an appropriate topic for a post, post it here.

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some assembly required.'

[MightyLady77]

I was going to post a notice on Anything IV to use this topic instead.

I can't get Anything IV to load properly now.

If I can't get back in any time soon, would someone please turn out the lights over there?

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some assembly required.'

[Sycamore Evenstar]

I need help from one of the resident Technomages. My C-MOS battery is dying (it thinks now at 9:30PM, Friday that it is 2:30 last Sunday afternoon). Fan thought it is relatively easy to change that. Any opinions? If so, how 'bout $ (I'll be taking it in to have them play with it!). I'd really rather try to keep this little ol' antique running as long as I can with "nickle and diming" it, rather than shell out for a new one right now.

Thanks!!

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[MightyLady77]

Syc,

On my old pc I installed an auxilliary battery that plugged into the motherboard. Do you have any such option on your motherboard?

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Somebody should have labeled the future 'Some assembly required.'

[MightyLady77]

Syc,

I can't tell you if it's even possible with your motherboard. The computer I did this fix to was used when I bought it in '93. Back then pc's weren't seen as disposable items. Nowadays, well, there might or might not be an option to switch from the battery that is wired to the board to a battery pack (that uses AA's!).

If you don't mind taking off the cover and poking around... What about the hubby? He's handy about these things, isn't he?

I'd offer to come take a look, but I start school tomorrow morning.

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.

[MightyLady77]

Sheesh!

Is it just me?

I started a new topic, HTML Practice Zone, and now I can't access it! All I get is the advertising but no messages.

Can anyone else access it? Let me know if you can.

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MightyLady of the Flame Red Hair
Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.

[sindatur]

Hi Syc,

It might be worth your while to open the computer up. If your lucky it will be a flat one similar to watch battery, but about the size of a quarter and just clips in, you could replace that yourself with a soldering iron. Or it may be similar to that and soldered in. It could also be a cylinder that is soldered in. At any rate it should only have 2 (maybe 3 if a ground pin) legs. It should cost almost nothing to replace it (soldered or not) and the battery itself shouldn't cost more than $15.00, if that. Someone who knows how to solder could do it in under 3 minutes, once the top is off the computer.

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Sindatur - The Grey owl Wizzard

[fanuilhgkar]

Hey, Bee, it's not just you. I tried to access the HTML Practice Zone earlier today and couldn't, figured it was me or maybe the data load or something. But I still can't see anything in there except the banner ad and the headings ("Zocalo" and all that stuff). Where'd it go?

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[Sycamore Evenstar]

I have no idea, Bee. That sounds like a cheap (re labor), easy solution if I do. In any event, a new battery may be a good short-term fix?

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[Sycamore Evenstar]

Bad news! It's a $10. battery (that's not too bad), but the tech who has worked on this one before said that it is buried so deeply that you have to take apart the whole thing to get to it. Hubby thought that was a little riskier than he wanted to get into; alternatively, labor would be $90. I can buy a new box there for $300. (Unfortunately, I don't have a good sense of "throw-away" vs "durable goods"!)

Time to bite the bullit and get the new 'puter and a free printer? (And hope the car and cat stay healthy for a few pay checks!!)

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[This message has been edited by Sycamore Evenstar (edited September 04, 2001).]